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Created July 1, 2010 04:25
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Grab a random lolcat from cheezburger.com
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Grab a random lolcat URL
## Grab random lolcat URL
url = URI.parse('http://api.cheezburger.com/xml/category/cats/lol/random')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
http.request(req)
end
r = /.*<LolImageUrl>([^<]*)<\/LolImageUrl>.*/m
m = r.match( res.body )
lolcat = m[1]
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